Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Title | Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Wale Adebanwi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-03-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107054222 |
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria
Title | Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560729679 |
This book is more than just a study of ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. The two countries are a microcosm of the entire continent: the problems it faces, its successes and failures, and the hope and despair of hundreds of millions of its people whose aspirations have been frustrated by decades of corrupt leadership that has skilfully exploited one of Africa's biggest weaknesses -- tribalism. But the people themselves are also responsible for that. They have allowed tribalism to flourish and destroy the countries. And they have allowed unscrupulous politicians to use and abuse them -- without storming the Bastille. What they are not responsible for is dictatorship African leaders instituted to perpetuate themselves in office by exploiting tribalism. These despots have been so good at it, and have done it for so long since independence, that many African countries are now on the brink of collapse, with the people at war against themselves.
Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Title | Ethnic Politics in Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Okwudiba Nnoli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Ethnicity |
ISBN |
Imperialism and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria, 1960-1996
Title | Imperialism and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria, 1960-1996 PDF eBook |
Author | Pade Badru |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Military government |
ISBN | 9780865436046 |
Badru examines the class dimension of the Nigerian political crisis since 1960, when this culturally diverse nation became independent. He claims that the ruling elite, whether constituted in the military or the civil society, consistently used ethnicity to secure its own class domination in the absence of a coherent class ideology.
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria
Title | Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Diamond |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1988-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780815624226 |
The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria’s First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war. Class, Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria’s First Republic and to weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria’s democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the democratic process in furious competition for state control, since that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and consolidating class dominance. Tracing the polarization of conflict and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal democracy.
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Title | Understanding Modern Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Toyin Falola |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 691 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108837972 |
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Title | Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Rotimi T. Suberu |
Publisher | 成甲書房 |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781929223282 |
FOREWORD by Larry Diamond